re: Why Does Anthony Get More Hate When He Actually Reached the WCF Unlike Paul?

It's not fair to blame this series loss solely on Paul, or even mostly on him, necessarily. The Clippers as a whole didn't play great defense. Jordan was a virtual non-factor the entire series and was in constant foul trouble due to stupid errors. Not Paul's fault. Crawford chucked and chucked until the Clips finally gave up big leads. I think the loss in game 5 was actually on him, not Paul. Griffin wasn't entirely good either this series.

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When was the last time a team won a finals with their PG as their best player?

Spurs won in 2007 when Parker won finals MVP, but Tim Duncan was still the best player on that team then

Pistons won in 03 with Chauncey winning finals MVP, but I'm not convinced he was necessarily the best player on the team. I think it was Ben Wallace imo

Before that you have to go back to bad boy Pistons era with Isaih to find the last time a truly elite PG won the finals.

Which begs the question, is the pg position the most overrated position in basketball. Many people always say that the pg position is most important. Then why is it that the last time a truly elite superstar pg won it all was 24 years ago.

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Exactly my point, you need a dominant big man or wing scorer to win in the nba, not a point guard. I will say that the 2 best players on that detroit championship team were billups and rip hamilton however. Even when the lakers were winning in the 80s, magic still had kareem. Isaiah is really the only point guard in the last 30 years to win a championship that was clearly the best player on his team.

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A team that is good at passing the ball is what is needed.

A very very small percentage of scoring is done where a PG makes a great pass that leads directly to points.

Passing is important in basketball, but your team's offense has to have 5 willing passers on the floor who swing the ball to the open man.

That's why a PG is not going to lead a team anywhere unless he can score a lot of points efficiently

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this is why tony parkers assist numbers arent very high. the spurs have incredible ball movement and always make the extra pass. that often leads to someone else getting the assist.

rondo on the other hand dribbles the air out of the ball and shot clock and at the last minute feeds a guy the ball where he has to jack it up. thats why his assist numbers are inflated.

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he said he couldnt play with jeremy linn b/c linn was ball dominant

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James Dolan's first intelligent decision was not re-signing Lin for 4 years.

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linn is a guy who can score. i thought thats what melo needed? help scoring bc he cant do EVERYTHING!! so you had a guy, but his contract was the problem? the knicks being financially responsible, hilarious!

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You think Houston isn't kicking themselves for letting Dragic go in favor of Lin?

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dragic had his chance in houston and didnt play very well. all 30 teams could have picked him up if they wanted. he landed in phoenix and played great. good for him. morey makes millions of moves, they dont all work. i love linn as the 6th man coming off the bench. i cringe at the idea of him being my starting PG, but i love his scoring ability off the bench

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then blaming others when it doesnt work out

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When did he do that this year, in what was obviously the lowest point of his career?

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for all the crap i giove melo, i will say this-- he takes his media beating like a man. youre right, he doesnt lash out publicly, and he does sit and answer tough questions without acting like a child. good for him. but alot of that is also what he asked for when denver was too small a pond for him and his wife. but theres turmoil behind the scenes, him considering bailing and going to chicago. what i should have said is "the melo defenders blaming everyone in the world but best player on the team"

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That's not really true. Dragic played very well in Houston, and Morey would have loved to keep him. But Morey had his eyes on trying to get a star player. And Morey said the issue with Dragic was the player option.

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There was a post on clutchfans by one of the well connected posters that said that Morey want to keep Dragic but Alexander saw $$ and told him to sign Lin.

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so hes an average rebounder for a 4 and sucks on defense. is that a fair compromise

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No, considering he predominantly plays the 3, I was just stating that he excelled offensively as a small-ball 4, which is true. 8 rebounds pg is the best mark of all small forwards this year, Durant included.

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he was on his best behavior for 3 weeks when he was clearly not the star of the show and they won every game. what a true sportsmen

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He's been on other Olympic teams, too. It's a shame Amare's career went the way it did. Who knows.

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the knicks being financially responsible, hilarious!

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Letting Lin go was a financially responsible decision (what two contracts would Houston need to move to make a run at Melo? Hint: one is Lin's), resigning JR Smith was not.

I'm not a Melo fanboy by any means, but the guy played his arse off on a terrible team this year who had a lame duck coach. He didn't go out to some phantom injury like a lot of other guys would have and he didn't bitch.

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There was a post on clutchfans by one of the well connected posters that said that Morey want to keep Dragic but Alexander saw $$ and told him to sign Lin.

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And I think he's full of shite.

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so youre admitting hes playing a small ball 4, but then want to classify him as a 3. you cant have it both ways....

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So how would classify LeBron then?

He played two different positions this year, and spent more time at the 3. However, when he played the 4 the Knicks played some of their best basketball. I don't understand why this is so hard.

I've never seen Chris Paul double-teamed. Never.

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like jose calderon

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Racist.